Sentences with phrase «as valued objects»

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Over the centuries, gold has been considered as an object of value by many different groups of people all over the world.

The reason they chose gold versus other objects is important - gold has certain characteristics that make it a better «store of value» (as it is commonly known) than other objects:

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

There emerges reflection or self - consciousness.23 Reflection is «the power acquired by consciousness to turn in upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an object endowed with its own particular consistence and value: no longer merely to know, but to know oneself; no longer merely to know, but to know that one knows.»

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

Because such enduring objects are more tied to the body, they are more dominated by particular forms of definiteness in their successive satisfactions than the final percipient route, whose sole value to the body, as we pointed out above, is its vivid originality.

Although the simple eternal object defines a class of particulars that as values of the variable are that definite shade of green, and although these individuals are externally related, the simple eternal object itself is internally related to the higher grade object, in that it partially constitutes its essence.

II, p. 241) At the stage of development represented by such an attitude, the value of religion was measured by the control given the devotee over superhuman powers and, so far as prayer was used, its object was to persuade a god to do the bidding of a man.

No more does it help to suggest that God's value is wholly independent of his relations to the world, whether of knowledge or of will, for this only means that the particular characters of the objects of his knowledge, or the results of his willing, are to him totally insignificant, which is psychologically monstrous and is religiously appalling as well..

From this standpoint we can see why it is inadequate to describe the agape of God only as the spontaneous, unmotivated, uncalculated self - giving of the Holy God, regardless of the value of its object.

Originally as the principle of limitation, the principle of concretion determined which of the eternal objects would be actualizable in the world, now each occasion actualizes itself in terms of God's gradation of values.

For Whitehead evidently supposes that it is the value which God apprehends an eternal object as possessing, or its suitability for ingression in a particular context, which makes it a lure for action.

They speak, like Wolfgang Köhler, of the «objective requiredness» of values, and, like Eliseo Vivas, they describe the relation to these values as the relation of a subject to an independent object to which man simply responds.

, suggests that in order to be accepted as valid Buber's anthropology would have to be grounded on empirical psychology and an objective and scientific hierarchy of values, in other words, on pure subject - object epistemology.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

It is institutionalized as worship, and as ritual ascribing value to the object of worship and expressing the inferiority of the worshipper (often symbolized by bowing down).

In so far as «C major» is highly valued in this particular aesthetic synthesis, it is included and with it every other eternal object with which it is internally related — including «D major.»

This referential character adds what is commonly overlooked in discussion of ideality and reality — namely, no eternal object (or ideal) is ingressed (or realized) simpliciter, but only as a relatum whose relata are simultaneously ingressed relatively (insofar as they are graded in value up or down).

Anger as an eternal object is not a value; it is this particular instance of anger as characterizing this particular unit of feeling which is a value.

First, the ordering or valuing of the eternal objects has to do with God himself as an actual entity.

One might also object that we simply have no need for «values,» since the word is fully replaceable by less ambiguous and more forceful synonyms, such as «virtues.»

Each individual as an object of the love of God has a unique value.

This is the natural consequence of the logic of exchange as the foundation of worth and value: if worth is based upon what one has or knows or achieves, those who have little by society's standards become worthless and expendable, objects of scorn, neglect and abuse.

He conceives reality as the object of experience, that which is known or valued.

Peasants were treated as objects whose value was non-existent for big farming.

Despite Hall's appeal to the Whiteheadian separation of «practical» and «speculative» reason, 11 I think that on a more fundamental level Whitehead too regards knowing (or more broadly the relation of any actual occasion to its «environment») as an active process in which the aim of the subject at its own attainment of value partially determines how it will respond to the objects of which it is aware.

It is a radical mistake to treat animals merely as products, as objects with no intrinsic value.

Thus he also regards the «eternal objects» as ultimately transtemporal possibilities for value that are called into actualization in the temporal process.

What makes this monotheism «radical» is its insistence that God is beyond all the many, including the «many» through whom we apprehend God: Scripture, church, even Jesus Christ himself As the ground of our being and value, God alone is the proper Object of our ultimate loyalty and love.

They are Madisonian pluralists who stress Federalist Paper No. 45 as the preferred side of Madison: «The public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued: and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.»

That is to say, it can be correctly defined as that which, when made the object of attentive awareness, yields the values of religious experience.

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

Thus, the principles of esthetic value here discussed may serve not only as guides in creating and appreciating what are called «art objects» and as criteria of qualitative excellence in curricular matters outside of the arts, but as attributes of the good life and as a source of general educational aims.

As we noted above, in the chapter on God in Science and the Modern World, Whitehead presents God as envisaging the possibilities of value as the principle of limitation but he makes no mention of God's envisaging the eternal objectAs we noted above, in the chapter on God in Science and the Modern World, Whitehead presents God as envisaging the possibilities of value as the principle of limitation but he makes no mention of God's envisaging the eternal objectas envisaging the possibilities of value as the principle of limitation but he makes no mention of God's envisaging the eternal objectas the principle of limitation but he makes no mention of God's envisaging the eternal objects.

Cobb says,»... the way in which God functions as the principle of limitation is by ordering the infinite possibilities of the eternal objects according to principles of value.

Seems so vain to me, but not really surprising since our culture seems to value breasts more as sexual objects than for their intended purpose.

As a registered charity, Heritage Park is able to issue gift - in - kind income tax receipts for the fair market value of an object, in accordance with our procedures and Canada Revenue Agency regulations.

There are many online communities focused on babywearing, High End Babywearing is one that values carriers for their utility, as objects (even art), and for their monetary value.

The House had objected to using an increase in the local taxes, known as the «required local effort,» that came as a result of higher property values.

It was the President's fervent hope that the deep love Queen Elizabeth shown for the Commonwealth «will continue to light the way for all of us and our successors, as we endeavour to establish firmly in a world, where many traditional assumptions are under serious threat, the values of fairness, decency, freedom and openness, which have been the object of her work.

First mentioned by Pliny the Elder in the first century as «frog stones,» people believed these small, dull - colored objects were talismans that had all kinds of medicinal and magical value.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

As the PR2 moves its joints and manipulates objects, the algorithm calculates good values for the 92,000 parameters of the neural net it needs to learn.

Snow, together with her students Carissa Romero and Michael Compton, have also discovered recently that snack foods presented as real objects are valued more than snacks presented as 2 - D images — a study soon to be published in the journal Cortex.

Since lit stars can form at masses as low as ~ 0.04 solar mass, provided the metallicity is 3x that of today's value, it may be possible to stellarize such objects provided we could find enough metals to dump in them.

Burt Pugach and his friends consider women as objects to possess, but human life in general is of little value to them.

Like Gleeson and Byrne, Gluck seems to recognize his film's inherent frivolousness, frequently calling attention to some of the screenplay's plot mechanics and hacky tropes — at one point even hanging a lampshade on Peter's famous blue jacket, in acknowledgement of the object's trite value as an emotional symbold.

As the script keeps reminding us, the older generation's stubbornness has little to do with the economic value of their memory objects.

It's hard for me to imagine how the dominant, non-formalist form of film studies, with its systemic handicap of abstaining from value judgment and not being able to treat the film as an independent aesthetic object capable of producing an infinite variety of affects, can be terribly instructive for the enterprise of film criticism, which necessarily calls for a hierarchy of values on the part of the practitioner and his / her acknowledgement being a sentient, unique subject capable of being transformed by the film.

While well - meaning progressive educators might be willing to criticize the manner in which humans are turned into dead objects that Marxists refer to as fetishized commodities, they are often loathe to consider the fact that within capitalist society, all value originates in the sphere of production and that one of the primary roles of schools is to serve as agents or functionaries of capital.